CFP: The Edwardians (UK) (3/30/06; 7/24/06-7/26/06)

CFP: The Edwardians (conference) University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield,UK. This three-day conference to be held at the University ofHertfordshire, Hatfield offers a forum to scholars and students from avariety of disciplines whose research is concerned with The "Edwardian"period in its broadest sense. The aim of the event is threefold: to reviewthis often overlooked decade, to bring together a variety of approaches toimportant texts, personalities, themes and events and to includediscussion of key issues including definition of the term "Edwardian." Thescope of the conference encompasses literature, journalism, drama, thevisual arts, historical studies and other allied disciplines.

Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the conferencetheme including (but not limited to):Edwardians and Victorians: Continuities? Or Changes?Figuring modernityNostalgia – the Edwardian era as the last pre-war Golden AgeAnxieties and Tension – Nationality and Empire; the rise of the UnitedStates; the 'great powers' of Europe.Impacts of Mass Media (Cinema, Tabloid Press, the continuing developmentsof the New Journalism)Genre and Mode – popular and 'high' cultural formsPolitics – from women's suffrage to debates about NationalismTechnological 'advance' and Scientific Discoveries – and their culturalaftershocks.

Please send an email abstract of 300 words to one of the ConferenceOrganisers at the addresses below by 1 March 2005.